Anyone remember this game?
It was an action RPG based mainly on the late 70's animated version of LotR. It was a very average game to be honest, with a stupidly complicated quest - you had to collect what seemed like hundreds of different items to pass certain stages of the game and you had no map to tell you where they were - so most of the game was spent wandering around caves not knowing where to go next. The game also lacked an on-cart save feature (a real killer with an RPG of this size). However the animation was really impressive and smooth, and the music was simply out of this world. Some of my favourite videogame tunes are featured in this game. I remember at the time Interplay made a big thing about the quality of the music, they'd developed some amazing new software or something. I'd love to get the soundtrack on CD, but I doubt it's available.
Interplay were going to release a game for each book but the sales of the first title were pretty poor (after a lot of hype) so they didn't bother. This can fetch quite a decent price on fleabay (I paid ?10 for an unboxed US copy of the game) and is well worth picking up for the music alone.
It was an action RPG based mainly on the late 70's animated version of LotR. It was a very average game to be honest, with a stupidly complicated quest - you had to collect what seemed like hundreds of different items to pass certain stages of the game and you had no map to tell you where they were - so most of the game was spent wandering around caves not knowing where to go next. The game also lacked an on-cart save feature (a real killer with an RPG of this size). However the animation was really impressive and smooth, and the music was simply out of this world. Some of my favourite videogame tunes are featured in this game. I remember at the time Interplay made a big thing about the quality of the music, they'd developed some amazing new software or something. I'd love to get the soundtrack on CD, but I doubt it's available.
Interplay were going to release a game for each book but the sales of the first title were pretty poor (after a lot of hype) so they didn't bother. This can fetch quite a decent price on fleabay (I paid ?10 for an unboxed US copy of the game) and is well worth picking up for the music alone.
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